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From: Tim Fraser <tfraser@cs.umd.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] admin with fossil?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:06:21 -0400
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Here's a couple of newbie questions for you all; I apologize in
advance for trying your patience:

I recently installed Plan 9 4th edition off of an installation CD-ROM
downloaded on 29 Sept 2003.  Sticking to the defaults, I wound up with
a stand-alone terminal running a local fossil filesystem.

Question 1: What is the proper way to overcome fossil's access
controls in order to perform administrative tasks (such as editing
/rc/bin/termrc)?  Is there a means of turning off access control with
fossil as there is with kfs, or does one create a user with
administrative group memberships?

Question 2: Based on the number of helpful examples on the web, kfs
appears to be a well-trodden path.  However, it seems that fossil is
the way of the future.  Which filesystem is more appropriate for my
stand-alone terminal, fossil or kfs?

Thanks,

Tim Fraser / U. Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies